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To love and to serve

....to love the Lord your God and to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and to cling to and unite with Him and to serve Him with all your heart and soul [your very life].  Joshua 22:5 AMP

If you believe in God what do you mean when you say you love him and serve him?  What is your definition of that?  Does it mean you go to a church on Sunday mornings and maybe Wednesday nights?  Is that what loving God and serving God means to you?  Or is it more?  Are you on a journey to figure out what it is still?  
I love today's quote from the book of Joshua in the Bible.  It indicates to me that loving God and serving him probably is defined best without including a church building/denomination/etc.  When I look at today's quote and I read it with an open heart and mind and clear eyes I see that loving and serving God is defined by obeying all of his word, uniting myself to him, and allowing my life to be changed by his word.  And when I say his word I mean his word not our version of his word or what we want his word to say because it's easier to "swallow".  So part of loving and serving God is being open to his word and not our version of it.  Another part of loving and serving him is clinging and uniting to him with all of us - our hearts, our soul, and our very lives.  How do we do that?  By allowing his word to be ours.  Hmmmm.  It all seems to come back to his word, why?  Because his word is what reveals to us his character, his nature, his heart, his commandments for us.  How we do love God and serve him?  By walking, breathing, living out, and sharing his word.

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